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Angry lineman?
Answer for the clue "Angry lineman? ", 10 letters:
crossguard
Word definitions for crossguard in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
On a sword , the crossguard , or cross-guard , also known as quillons , is a bar of metal at right angles to the blade, placed between the blade and the hilt . The crossguard was developed in the European sword around the 10th century for the protection ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A bar of metal, at right-angles, between the blade and the hilt of a sword that stops an opponent's blade from sliding down and injuring the hand of the person wielding the sword.
Usage examples of crossguard.
He pushed hard, plunging the blade halfway to the crossguard, then pulling it free.
That was well enough, but the filbert-shaped pommel and the crossguard were silvered bronze that would soon grow hot enough to burn in this black light.
Of course, Wasp had been rusty steel with fittings of brass, while this had a blade of silver-washed steel, a crossguard of gold, and a gold pommel with a diamond set at the very end of it.
He studied the details he knew so well: the polished blade with the fuller down its length, the aggressive, downswept crossguards, the hilt covered in fine, twisted silver wire with twisted gold wire woven through it forming the raised letters of the word Truth.
The scabbard and crossguard he secured with a length of twine filched from a net float.
He ran his other hand over the twisted metal nail set into the blade at the weapon's crossguard.